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Fifty Hollywood Directors

Author : Suzanne Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317593936
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Hollywood Directors written by Suzanne Leonard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry heavyweights. Each entry discusses a director’s practices and body of work and features a brief biography and suggestions for further reading. Entries include: Frank Capra Cecil B DeMille John Ford Alfred Hitchcock Fritz Lang Orson Welles DW Griffith King Vidor This is an indispensible guide for anyone interested in film history, Hollywood and the development of the role of the director.

Fifty Hollywood Directors

Author : Suzanne Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317593944
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Hollywood Directors written by Suzanne Leonard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry heavyweights. Each entry discusses a director’s practices and body of work and features a brief biography and suggestions for further reading. Entries include: Frank Capra Cecil B DeMille John Ford Alfred Hitchcock Fritz Lang Orson Welles DW Griffith King Vidor This is an indispensible guide for anyone interested in film history, Hollywood and the development of the role of the director.

Fifty Contemporary Film Directors

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136919457
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Contemporary Film Directors written by Yvonne Tasker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Contemporary Film Directors examines the work of some of today’s most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact. Revised throughout and with twelve new entries, this second edition is an up-to-date introduction to some of the most prominent film makers of the present day. The directors, from differing backgrounds and working across a range of genres, include: Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Sofia Coppola Julie Dash Shane Meadow Michael Moore Peter Jackson Guillermo Del Toro Tim Burton Jackie Chan Ang Lee Pedro Almodóvar. With further reading and a filmography accompanying each entry, this comprehensive guide is indispensable to all those studying contemporary film and will appeal to anyone interested in the key individuals behind modern cinema’s greatest achievements.

Fifty Filmmakers

Author : Andrew J. Rausch
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786484098
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Filmmakers written by Andrew J. Rausch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an extensive collection of original interviews with 50 noted filmmakers. Conducted over a seven-year period expressly for this project, the interviews cover various aspects of film production, biographical information, and the interviewees' favorite or most influential films. Filmmakers interviewed include highly respected auteurs (Richard Linklater, Wim Wenders), B-movie greats (Roger Corman, Lloyd Kaufman), and well-renowned documentary directors (D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles). Each entry includes a brief biography and filmography, while dozens of personal photographs, promotional materials, and film stills appear throughout the work.

Movie Makers

Author : Ian Freer
Publisher : Quercus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781847245120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Movie Makers written by Ian Freer and published by Quercus Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moviemakers provides profiles of the 50 greatest film directors in cinematic history. From D. W. Griffith to the iconic films of Quentin Tarantino, the range is wide, featuring not only the Hollywood greats, but also a full complement of European and Asian directors. Author Ian Freer writes with infectious enthusiasm for his subject and outlines the life of every director, the passage of each career, seminal influences, and major films, plus fascinating anecdotes from behind the scenes.

Cult Filmmakers

Author : Ian Haydn Smith
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0711240264
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Cult Filmmakers written by Ian Haydn Smith and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a cult filmmaker? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique, or critically divisive, cult filmmakers come in all shapes and guises. Some gain instant fame, others instant notoriety, and more still remain anonymous until a chance change in fashion sees their work propelled into the limelight. Cult Filmmakers handpicks 50 notable figures in the world of cinema and explores the creative genius that earned them the 'cult' label, while celebrating the movies that made their names. The book features both industry heavyweights like Tim Burton and David Lynch to the strange and surreal imaginings of filmmakers such as Alejandro Jodorowsky and Ana Lily Amirpour. Discover the minds behind such beloved features as Melancholia, Easy Rider, Lost in Translation and more. From little knowns with small, devout followings, to superstars walking the red carpet, each is special in their individuality and their ability to inspire, antagonise and delight. Cult Filmmakers is an essential addition to any film buff's archive, as well as an entertaining introduction to the weird and wonderful world of cinema. The filmmakers: Ana Lily Amirpour, Kenneth Anger, Gregg Araki, Darren Aronofsky, Mario Bava, Kathryn Bigelow, Anna Biller, Lizzie Borden, Tim Burton, John Carpenter, Park Chan-Wook, Benjamin Christensen, Vera Chytilova, Sofia Coppola, Roger Corman, Alex Cox, David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, Amat Escalante, Abel Ferrara, Georges Franju, Lucio Fulci, Terry Gilliam, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Dennis Hopper, King Hu, Jim Jarmusch, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Harmony Korine, Barbara Loden, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, Russ Meyer, Oscar Micheaux, Takashi Miike, Gaspar Noe, Gordon Parks, George A. Romero, Ken Russell, Susan Seidelman, Seijun Suzuki, Larisa Shepitko, Quentin Tarantino, Melvin van Peebles, Lars von Trier, John Waters, Nicolas Winding Refn, Edward D. Wood Jr., Brian Yuzna.

Fifty Contemporary Film Directors

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136919465
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Contemporary Film Directors written by Yvonne Tasker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact.

A Life in Movies

Author : Irwin Winkler
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683355288
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book A Life in Movies written by Irwin Winkler and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lively memoir . . . a first-hand work of cinema history . . . the testament of a pivotal figure in American moviemaking.” —Martin Scorsese The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, Creed, and The Irishman. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy Awards, including five movies for Best Picture, and have won twelve. In A Life in Movies, his charming and insightful memoir, Winkler tells the stories of his career through his many films as a producer and then as a writer and director, charting the changes in Hollywood over the past decades. Winkler started in the famous William Morris mailroom and made his first film—starring Elvis—in the last days of the old studio system. Beginning in the late 1960s, and then for decades to come, he produced a string of provocative and influential films, making him one of the most critically lauded, prolific, and commercially successful producers of his era. This is an engrossing and candid book, a beguiling exploration of what it means to be a producer, including purchasing rights, developing scripts, casting actors, managing directors, editing film, and winning awards. Filled with tales of legendary and beloved films, as well as some not-so-legendary and forgotten ones, A Life in Movies takes readers behind the scenes and into the history of Hollywood. “Charming and anecdote packed . . . popcorn for movie nerds.” —Newsweek “A deftly written recollection of an eventful and happy life in a precarious and, frankly, insane business; a remarkably clear-eyed look behind the scenes of moviemaking.” —Kevin Kline

The Essential Directors

Author : Sloan De Forest
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780762498932
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Directors written by Sloan De Forest and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intoxicated and entranced our senses. One artist's vision is the single most prominent force behind the scenes: the director. The Essential Directors illuminates the unseen forces behind some of the most notable screen triumphs from the aesthetic peak of silent cinema through the New Hollywood of the 1970s. Considering each artist's influence on the medium, cultural impact, and degree of achievement, Turner Classic Movies presents a compendium of Hollywood's most influential filmmakers, with profiles offering history and insight on the filmmaker's narrative style, unique touches, contributions to the medium, key films, and distinctive movie moments to watch for. The work of these game-changing artists is illustrated throughout by more than 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs. Featured directors include Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, Oscar Micheaux, Lois Weber, Dorothy Arzner, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch, W. S. Van Dyke, John Ford, Orson Welles, William Wyler, Alfred Hitchcock, Ida Lupino, Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kramer, David Lean, Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg.

My First Movie

Author : Stephen Lowenstein
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book My First Movie written by Stephen Lowenstein and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2000 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody forgets their first time--and film directors are no exception. In these vivid and revealing interviews, a collection of filmmakers as diverse as the Coen brothers and Ken Loach, Ang Lee and Kevin Smith, Anthony Minghella and Gary Oldman, Neil Jordan and Mira Nair talk in extraordinary detail and with amazing candor about making their first films. Each chapter focuses on a director's celebrated debut--be it "Angel or "Blood Simple, "Clerks or "Diner, "Muriel's Wedding or "Truly, Madly, Deeply--and tells the inside story: from writing the script to raising the money, from casting the actors to assembling the crew, from shooting to editing, from selling the movie to screening it. Along the way, every aspect of the movie industry is explored: from dealing with agents and moguls for the first time to pitching your movie as a debutante director, from languishing in development hell to confronting test audiences from hell. The questions have been posed by Stephen Lowenstein, a young director with two acclaimed short films to his credit. Remembering the struggle to launch their careers, the directors have opened up about their first films and themselves to an unprecedented degree. Each chapter is not only a memoir of a particular movie, but also an emotional journey in which the director relives the pain and elation, the comedy and tragedy, of making a first feature. For anyone who wants to direct movies, these tales of triumph and disaster, of sleepless nights and nail-biting days, will be enthralling and terrifying in equal measure. For all other film fans, the interviews provide fascinating and entertaining insights into filmmakers who have become household names.

The Cinema of Robert Altman

Author : Robert Niemi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850867
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Robert Altman written by Robert Niemi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's idiosyncratic vision and propensity for formal experimentation resulted in an uneven body of work: some rank failures and intriguing near-misses, as well as a number of great films that are among the most influential works of New American Cinema. While Altman always professed to have nothing authoritative to say about the state of contemporary society, this volume surveys all of his major films in their sociohistorical context to reposition the director as a trenchant satirist and social critic of postmodern America, depicted as a lonely wasteland of fraudulent spectacle, exploitative social relations, and unfulfilled solitaries in search of elusive community.

Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415189743
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers written by Yvonne Tasker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Luc Besson to Quentin Tarantino, Fifty Contemporary Film-makers offers an up-to-date guide to the individuals who are shaping modern cinema.

Passport to Hollywood

Author : James Morrison
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791439371
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Passport to Hollywood written by James Morrison and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines popular films made in Hollywood by European directors, offering a fresh take on the much-debated issue of the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture.

A Light in the Dark

Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593318153
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book A Light in the Dark written by David Thomson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film--an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film. Directors operate behind the scenes, managing actors, establishing a cohesive creative vision, at times literally guiding our eyes with the eye of the camera. But we are often so dazzled by the visions on-screen that it is easy to forget the individual who is off-screen orchestrating the entire production--to say nothing of their having marshaled a script, a studio, and other people's money. David Thomson, in his usual brilliantly insightful way, shines a light on the visionary directors who have shaped modern cinema and, through their work, studies the very nature of film direction. With his customary candor about his own delights and disappointments, Thomson analyzes both landmark works and forgotten films from classic directors such as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, and Jean-Luc Godard, as well as contemporary powerhouses such as Jane Campion, Spike Lee, and Quentin Tarantino. He shrewdly interrogates their professional legacies and influence in the industry, while simultaneously assessing the critical impact of an artist's personal life on his or her work. He explores the male directors' dominance of the past, and describes how diversity can change the landscape. Judicious, vivid, and witty, A Light in the Dark is yet another required Thomson text for every movie lover's shelf.

Fifty Great American Silent Films, 1912-1920

Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Great American Silent Films, 1912-1920 written by Anthony Slide and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fifty Key American Films

Author : John White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135979324
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Key American Films written by John White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Key American Films provides a chance to look at fifty of the best American films ever made with case studies from the 1930's hey day of Cinema right up to the present day.

Charlton Heston's Hollywood

Author : Charlton Heston
Publisher : GT Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781577193579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Charlton Heston's Hollywood written by Charlton Heston and published by GT Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the actor's career through behind-the-scenes looks at all of his movies and anecdotes about the actors, actresses, and directors with whom he has worked.